Word: viacheslav
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...that Stalin is worshiped as a god.* Joseph Stalin must therefore have felt justified last week in giving himself the dual job that only sainted Nikolai Lenin has held. He suddenly promoted himself to the Premiership, the Presidency of the Council of Commissars, leaving the former Premier, glum, encyclopedic Viacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov, with the titles of Vice Premier and Foreign Minister...
...Tokyo sped the pleased little diplomat, through border country from which Japanese troops were already being moved south to new spheres of action. In his brief case was the precious pact, signed by himself and Russia's Premier Viacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov just a week before. Tokyo newspapers were already hailing it as a "new sword" in Japan's hand, with which Japan would try to settle its differences with Great Britain, the U.S., The Netherlands Indies and China-diplomatically, if possible. If diplomacy did not succeed, Japan no longer feared attack from the rear...
...coup having foiled the kidnapping plot, last week the Croat leader, old Dr. Vladimir Matchek, joined Premier Simovitch's Cabinet as Vice Premier, thereby ending Germany's hope of amputating Croatia. Two days later, in Moscow, the Yugoslav Minister, Milan Gavrilovitch, and Russia's Foreign Minister Viacheslav Molotov signed a treaty of "nonaggression and friendship" while Joseph Stalin looked on, beaming broadly...
...only times the top-hatted, morning-coated little Foreign Minister seemed to brighten were when he talked to men of peace. In Moscow Peaceful Joe Stalin dropped in on Yosuke Matsuoka's interview with Foreign Commissar Viacheslav Molotov, and Matsuoka glowed. In Rome the Protestant Japanese and the Pope had a long, 65-minute talk. Afterward the Pope told a group of Japanese seminarists that the interview had been "a fine one." Minister Matsuoka called it "the prettiest moment of my life...
More important, if less well known, heads were rolling too. Removed as alternate Committee member was Paulina Semionovna Zhemchuzhina, for five years head of Russia's big cosmetics trust, upped to Vice Commissar of the Food Industry in 1937-and the wife of Premier and Foreign Commissar Viacheslav Molotov...